Chinese factories rise but U.S. manufacturing slows
Report by Steven C. Johnson and Koh Gui Qing | NEW YORK/BEIJING | Mon Apr 1, 2013 9:05pm IST: (Reuters) – Strong demand at home boosted activity at Chinese factories last month, but U.S. manufacturing More...
Google exec questioned over Brazil election video
(Reuters) – Google Inc’s most senior executive inBrazil was questioned by police and released on Wednesday after the company failed to take down a YouTube video attacking a mayoral candidate in alleged More...
How the New Revolutions May Have Failed
Column Stephen Suleyman Schwartz At mid-June, the wave of democratic revolutions in “pre-emerging” countries – those that have not yet reached the status of “emerging economies” – had seemingly come More...
OECD sees signs of improvement in UK economy
London, UNITED KINGDOM – Adding to the cautious optimism on growth prospects, the latest Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) monthly bulletin released on Monday perceives signs of More...
G20′s Internet economy could double to over $4 trillion by 2016: Study
Davos – The web economy of the G20 is estimated to touch over $4 trillion in 2016 – nearly double the size of $2.3 trillion in 2010, as per a study conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Commissioned More...
World Bank hints at global slowdown
Beijing – The latest survey by the World Bank has portrayed a grim outlook for the global economy in the wake of risks posed by an escalation in the euro zone debt crisis and a slowdown in India, Brazil and More...
Brazilian plane-maker eyeing NATO to sell its light combat jets
Sao Paulo (Brazil) – Weeks after winning its first US government contract, a top executive of Embraer has said the Brazil’s plane-maker was now eyeing more NATO nations to sell its Super Tucano light More...
An Eid Al-Adha Manifesto: For A Sufi Revolution
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - Eid Al-Adha has arrived. Known in India as Eid ul-Zuha, to Balkan and Turkish Muslims as Kurban Bairam and to Persian speakers as Eid-e-Ghorban, the four-day festival of More...
The Moral Crisis of Pakistani Barelvism
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - The week ending 23 October has been replete with complex events. They include the violent end of Mu’ammar Al-Qadhdhafi, the death in hospital of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan More...
Iranian Regime’s Trail of Terror
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - Legal charges were entered in the U.S. last week against an Iranian-American dual citizen, Mansour Arbabsiar, 56, who had resided in Texas, and an Iranian living in his native More...
